Mast-hoop



(No Model.)

0. S. MOTT.

MAST HOOP.

No. 453,585. Patented June 2,1891.

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CHARLES S. MOTT, OF PATCHOGUE, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO GEORGE H. SHAFFER, OF BROOKLYN, NE\V YORK.

MAST-HOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,585, dated June 2, 1891.

Application filed February 18, 1891- Serial No. 381,948. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- In operation, when a hoop is to be applied Be it known that I, CHARLES S. MOTT, of to a mast, the sleeve 16 is slid from over the Patchogue, in the county of Suffolk and State united ends, and the tongue 13 is forced from of New York, have invented a new and usethe recess 15. The ends of the hoop are then 5 ful Improvement in Mast-Hoops, of which the bent or carried in opposite directions a suffifollowing is a full, clear, an d exact descripcient distance to enable the hoop to be readily tion. sprung around the mast. hen this has been My invention relates to an improvement effected, the tongue is again entered into the in mast-hoops, and has for its object to prorecess 15 and the sleeve is slid over the joint no vide a sectional hoop capable of being readily and securely held in such position by a screw sprung around a mast and the ends of the or equivalent device, which is entered into the hoop securely fastened when said hoop is in sleeve at the aperture or apertures 17. position upon the mast. It is obvious that the hoop may in like man- The invention consists in the novel conner be expeditiously and conveniently disen- 15 struction and combination of the several gaged from the mast. The connections at the parts, as will be hereinafter fullyset forth,and ends of the hoop are exceedingly simple, and pointed out in the claims. when such connections are made the sleeve.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying will remain permanently in position or until drawings, forming a part of this specification, purposely disturbed.

20 in which similar figures of reference indicate Having thus described my invention, I corresponding parts in all the views. claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Figure 1 is a plan View of the hoop, having Patentits ends united. Fig. 2 is a side view of the 1. As an improved article of manufacture, hoop, illustrating the means of connecting the a mast-hoop constructed with two abutting 25 ends. Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views of ends, one of which is provided with a dovethe ends of the hoop, and Fig. 5 is a perspectail tongue and the other with a dovetail retive view of the locking-sleeve. cess to receive the tongue, and a sliding sleeve 7c The hoop 10 is constructed, preferably, of :1 adapted to cover the connected ends of the tough wo0dsuch as ash, oak, or hickory hoop, as and for the purpose specified.

30 and the hoop is made with two abutting ends 2. The combination, with a mast-1100p con- 11 and 12. The end 11 is formed with a censtructed with two abutting ends, one of which tral tongue 13 of dovetail shape, the end face ends is provided with a dovetail tongue havof which tongue is beveled inward, as shown ing a beveled outer end face, and the other at 14:. In the end 12 a dovetail recess 15 is end provided with a recess adapted to receive 3 5 produced,practically corresponding in length the tongue, of a sleeve held to slide upon the and breadth to the equivalent measurements hoop and means, substantially as described, of the tongue, the said recess 15 being adapted for locking the sleeve over the joint of the to receive the tongue 13. The end wall of the hoop, as and for the purpose specified. recess 15 is inwardly and downwardly beveled u 4.0 to receive the beveled face of the tongue. A CHARLES M011" semicircular sleeve 16 is adapted to slide upon Vitnesses: the hoop, and the said sleeve is usually pro- JOHN A. POTTER, vided at one or both ends with an aperture 17. O. GUNTHER ROSE. 

